This Month in WCW History: Hulk Hogan Signs with WCW [1994]

Throughout the decades, the NWA / WCW has left quite the legacy of unforgettable moments. Ric Flair winning the NWA Championship at Starrcade 1983, Sting winning that same title at the Great American Bash 1990, Hulk Hogan joining the nWo at the 1996 Bash at the Beach, and Goldberg winning the WCW Championship at the Georgia Dome would all easily qualify.

However, perhaps the one act they did in an attempt to turn the perception of WCW from a southern rasslin (R-A-S-S-L-I-N that’s rasslin!) company to an empire that could match the panache of Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation was to sign away the WWF’s most successful wrestler of the 1980s . . . that being Hulk Hogan.

BUT they couldn’t just sign him . . . no, that’s not thinking big enough. They had to do it live on the June 11th, 1994 edition of WCW Saturday Night at the Disney MGM Studios. It was there we had a ticker tape parade with onlookers following the car to give the impression that there were far more people than there really were on set. We also had a very organic placement of a WCW plus HULK = #1. It read like a tweet that would scroll on the bottom of the screen during an ep of Raw . . . and we had a man on stilts.